Texas A&M Football, 2026 Season, Fourth Game

The Aggies were impressive in their first two games against Missouri State and Arizona State, but they lost their pants and shoes in the third game at home against Kentucky. The next opponent is LSU at Baton Rouge on ABC at 6:30 PM this evening. The home team is an 8 1/2 point favorite, predicted by College Football News to win 31-23.

For A&M, the biggest unknown is whether or not Marcel Reed can settle down and eliminate those pass interceptions. Kentucky's defense made Reed look mediocre in the third game, and may have shaken his confidence, Stuff like that has been known to happen.

Update 9:06 AM Sunday:  I made a late decision Saturday afternoon that I'd try to watch Texas A&M vs LSU. As things worked out, I made it through most of the first quarter, but that was enough since the Aggies were being outplayed on offense, defense and special teams. Things aren't looking good for Mike Elko. I'm glad I bailed out early, since the final score was LSU 35-6, and I hate LSU almost as much as I hate the Texas U longhorns.

Texas A&M Football, 2026 Season, Third Game

The Texas A&M football team has looked fairly impressive in the first two games, so I hope they can continue to win comfortably today against the Kentucky Wildcats (1-1) at Kyle Field (on ESPN at 2:30 PM). The Aggies are 16.5-point favorites, and College Football News is predicting A&M will win 34-17. I would personally enjoy watching another win like the one against Arizona State last week.

Added 4:10 PM: The game's been a struggle for both teams, and the score is tied at 7-7 at the halftime. 

Added 5:06 PM:  At the end of the third quarter, Kentucky is ahead 28-7, and the Aggies are not accomplishing anything good on offense, defense, or special teams. This is the biggest stinking mess I've seen since the last two games of last season.

Final update 6:05 PM: It's hard to accept, but today, Kentucky looked more like the good team that was ready to play well than the Aggies did. It's frustrating to watch Marcel Reed because he's too inconsistent. Final score: Kentucky 31 Texas A&M 21. There probably won't be many A&M games remaining on the schedule that will be worth the waste of time it takes to watch. 

Texas A&M Football, 2026 Season, Second Game

I don't expect the Aggies to win by fifty points again when they take on Arizona State at Kyle Field at 11:00 AM on ESPN. The line on the game is Aggies by 14 1/2 points. College Football News is predicting an A&M win by 34-20. Winning this game by two touchdowns would encourage support for the team, but an Aggie win by any margin will be welcomed.

I was expecting this game to be a slugfest, and at halftime, the Aggies are leading 17-10.

Added 2:35 PM: The game was close at halftime, but in the second half, the Aggies kept taking advantage of ASU turnovers (fumbles, interceptions) to score touchdowns and build a good lead. The final score was 48-20.

Texas A&M Football, 2026 Season, First Game

 For an assortment of reasons, I've mostly ignored my collected blog family since the latter months of last year. Old habits are difficult to abandon, and I've typed a lot of words about Texas A&M / college football in more than 300 posts so far, and I'm resuming that particular activity with the first 2026 season game tomorrow.

The game will be played against Missouri State at Kyle Field, will begin around 6:00 PM CT on ESPN, and A&M is a 40 1/2-point favorite. College Football News is expecting this to be a 9-3 season for the Aggies, with the losses coming against LSU, Oklahoma and Texas U. (some things never change around Texas A&M). 

College Football News predicts the Aggies will cover the point spread with a 48-7 win at home. In football, Texas A&M is almost as predictable as Lardbucket has been as the worst precedent (sic) ever in American history.

Update added 9:34 AM Sunday: The Aggie performance in the first half of the game wasn't immaculate, but Missouri State was still behind 19-0 at halftime. It was fairly obvious that A&M would probably remain in the lead, so we watched an old Inspector Lewis episode on DVD instead of the football game. Sure enough, the Aggies led in total offensive yardage 505-67 and won the game 50-0. Missouri State will probably end up being the easiest home game A&M will play in 2026.

Regime Change Now Necessary

 For reasons that are too complicated to explain or comprehend, one of the greatest nations in the world is being destroyed by a mentally ill fool whose fame and popularity are the result of his performance as host of a TV reality game show years ago. He wasn't elected on the basis of any qualifying degree(s) of intelligence, experience, political skill, or knowledge. He's obsessed with the goal of regime change in Iran and there are probably other nations he's fantasizing about too.

Considering that this waste of pigeon manure hasn't effectively performed any duties of his office (and has completely refused to comply with all standards of the oath of office he's taken twice), we've now reached the point of needing comprehensive regime change in the USA. 

If we can't do this for ourselves, maybe our democratic allies in other nations will take leadership responsibility for making all the regime changes needed urgently in USA.

College Football 2025: (Game Thirteen, Failure)

 The first eleven games of this season, Texas A&M played poorly sometimes and extremely well at other times and managed to win all eleven games. Then came the trip to Texas U in Austin, and things fell apart. Today, the Aggies hosted Miami in their first CFP game on ABC/ESPN.

Tenth-ranked Miami (10-2) was a 3 1/2 point underdog to seventh-ranked A&M (11-1), but College Football News predicted the Aggies would lose 27-24 at home. The final score was 10-3, with the Hurricanes taking advantage of various failures by the Aggies late in the 4th quarter.

So much for all those dreams. 

College Football 2025: Twelfth Game (Texas U)

In the old days, the most important part of the Thanksgiving holiday was the annual rivalry game matching Texas A&M against Texas University. I saw a few of those games when I was still in public school and the Aggies were the home team. After I was attending Texas A&M, I saw the game every year since it was required among Corps members. Traditionally, Texas U has been better than Texas A&M (the Aggie record against Texas U is a sad 37-77).

The annual game was suspended when A&M left the Big 12 for the SEC West, but t.u. had to follow the Aggies to the SEC, starting last season. The next game as SEC rivals will be played in Austin tomorrow at 6:30 PM Central on ABC. The Aggies (11-0) are favored by 2.5 points against Texas U (8-3). The Aggies are unbeaten and the longhorns lost to Ohio State (14-7), Florida (29-21), and Georgia (35-10). 

College Football News has predicted t.u. will win 27-24. That's enough to make me nauseated, but I'll probably watch as long as A&M can gain and maintain a lead on the scoreboard.

Updated 11:04 PM Friday 11/28: it's very unfortunate that an A&M football season as good as this one had to finish with a 27-17 loss to Texas U in Austin. 

College Football 2025: Eleventh Game (Samford)

 It's almost impossible to build up enthusiasm for a game like this: Texas A&M (10-0) will be hosting Samford (1-10) as an over-50 point favorite. College Football News predicts the Aggies will win 52-0. I watched some of the game on my laptop to kill time, and A&M won 48-0. The next game against Texas U in Austin won't be as easy as the one this afternoon.